| In recent years, online games based on Internet technology prevail among youngsters, which triggered a series of social problems such as Internet addiction, crime, moral decline. Especially, online games' impacts on moral education for young people arouse great concern of the community. The traditional moral educations for youngsters have appeared to be inadequate under the impact from the network-gaming entertainment characterized by new technologies. It is necessary to conduct a research on characteristics of the times of online games and online games' impact on moral educations for youngsters.This paper discusses the game's education and moral influence on young people from three aspects, as well as countermeasures. The discussion consists of three parts. The first part focused on moral education analysis on new developments and features of online games in recent years, and analysis on content, philosophy, goals of moral education for China's young people with the great development of network technology. The second part is the core of the paper, mainly analyzing young people's moral awareness, moral emotion, moral identity and moral beliefs concerning online games. The discussion in this part just uses ethics, moral psychology, pedagogy, and multi-disciplinary theoretical achievements for reference. And this part reveals how network game undermines the moral heart of young people through the four aspects and how network game led to collapse of young people's moral behavior. At the same time, through the dialectical method of analysis, based on the positive effect of online game on moral education for young people, a summary was made, including helping to cultivate a spirit of solidarity collectivism, carrying forward the Chinese traditional moral culture, and helping to develop young people's moral internalization. The third part discusses how to avoid the negative effects of online games on the moral of young people as well as on the education for them, including emphasis on the importance of moral cognitive development mechanism, the core values of education, moral and other emotional experience. And on this basis, the writer aims at putting forward instructive suggestions concerning how to strengthen the moral other-discipline and how to explore the positive effects of online game on moral education for young people. |
